Captain Johan Jost Dygert

DYGERT, JOHANNES/JOHN Ancestor #: A035272
Service: NEW YORK Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, CAPTAIN
Birth: 1739 STONE ARABIA NEW YORK
Death: 8-6-1777 BATTLE OF ORISKANY NEW YORK
Service Description: 1) COL JACOB KLOCK
2) MEM COMM OF SAFETY

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Maria was married to Capt. Jost Dygert and was in the process of applying thru her son John Dygert who at that time was the county clerk for Herkimer County. The affidavit was reviewed on Oct. 7, 1837. John also sent an affidavit concerning the application of his mother."

Johann Jost Dygert, Capt. was born October 21, 1749 in Stone Arabia, New York, and died February 03, 1813 in Town of Manheim, Herkimer County, New York. He married Maria Elizabeth (Marillis) Moyer April 12, 1777 in John Moyer's house, her father, Manheim, Herkimer Co., New York. The marriage was performed by Rev. Gros. Maria Elizabeth was born May 05, 1763, and died Aft. October 07, 1837.

The birth and death date of Jost Dygert was recorded from a Dygert Family Bible which I have in my possession. (Clint Dygert)

Jost was a militia Ensign in 1767. According to an affidavit by John Dygert, who was county clerk of Herkimer County in 1837, he claims that his father, Jost Dygert, was in command of Gen. Nickolas Herkimer's front guard in the march to the relief of Fort Stanwix; therefore when General Herkimer issued that command, contrary to his own judgement, to "Forward March" in Aug. of 1777, Jost Dygert, now Captain, at the head of his company led the line of march and was the first man to enter that ambuscade in Oriskany Ravine.

Among other soldiers in Captain Dygert's company were his brother-in-law, Theobald Moyer and Henry J. Walradt, both soldiers from Little Falls, the latter of whom married Jost's cousin, Maria B., and perhaps Jost's father-in-law, John Moyer of Manheim, who furnished the interesting affadavit herewith. Henry J. Walradt was taken prisoner in that Battle of Oriskany." https://herkimer.nygenweb.net/regiments/mariadygert.html

Children of Johann Dygert and Maria Moyer are:

(1) Warner Dygert, born December 23, 1782 in Canajorie, Montgomery County, N.Y.; died December 15, 1844 in Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York.

(2) Johannes Dygert, born April 14, 1785 in Canajorie, Montgomery County, N.Y.; died May 26, 1867 in Little Falls, Herkimer, New York1. He married (1) Margaret Petrie; born September 06, 1785; died November 30, 1836 in Little Falls, Herkimer, New York. He married (2) Mary Lockwood September 13, 1837 in Little Falls, Herkimer County, N.Y.; Rev. Blodgett.

Johannes Dygert was a charter member of the Masonic Lodge at Little Falls,New York. In 1835, when he deposed on behalf of his mother's pension application, he resided in the Town of Herkimer.

Jost Dygert at the Battle of Oriskany

Herkimer, 1st of March, 1838. To Hon. A. Loomis, Representative in Congress.

Dear Sir: Since I rec'd yours with the enclosed I have endeavored to make further proof of the services of my father ( Jost Dygert ) in the Revolutionary War. In 1777 at the Battle of Oriskany he as an officer commanded the General's front guard but those he commanded are all dead. I can only now prove that fact by hearsay, which I suppose would be of no use. I am therefore authorized by my mother to say that she believes no further proof can be made and will excempt of a certificate asstated by Mr. I. L. Edwards. Respectfully yours, etc., Jon Dygert.

John was a clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Herkimer County, New York.

There is no issue of children from John Dygert and Margaret Petrie.

More About Johannes Dygert:

Baptism: April 15, 1785, German Flatts, Sponsors; Severinus W. Tygert and Margaretha Rosencrantz.

Notes for Margaret Petrie:
MARGARET married Marks Petrie - a near relative of Aunt Katie's husband, Marcus Petrie. They had children Marks, Peter and Joseph, and one daughter Margaret, who married the late John Dygert. They had no children.

Margaret died may years ago, and none of her children are now living. In person she was rather tall and not very stout, of fair countenance, genial disposition, and was highly respected by her relatives.

Inter-marriages of relatives in our family occur often. Esquire John Tygert, as the name was formerly spelled, was a grandson of Lana and Warner Dygert. Her homestead was on Church street. She died in 1836.

       By Col. Henry McLean Heath

       Little Falls, N.Y.

       Herkimer County News Print

       1893

More About Margaret Petrie:
Baptism: September 26, 1785, German Flatts; Sponsors; Pieter P. and Christina Bellinger

(3) Daniel Dygert, born March 10, 1798 in Canajorie, Montgomery County, N.Y.; died September 27, 1847 in Little Falls, Herkimer Co., New York.